With listening to music and watching TV becoming more social experiences, the Facebook app will be updated with audio recognition.
These days, few people watch TV shows or listen to music alone. Not in the figurative sense anyway. Audio service last.fm is a good example of the latter, with the website and app including software called the ‘Scrobbler’ which ‘scrobbles’ the music that you’re having a song and dance to on your phone, tablet or laptop and shares it with your friends and last.fm network. On the TV side of things, people livetweet and share images about the TV shows that entertain them for 20 minutes or more, making the stationary water cooler moments a global, more easily accessible experience; without a water cooler or a workplace in sight. Now, Facebook is looking to build on that, now announcing plans to add audio recognition to its official app.
Not only will the Facebook app allow you to identify the song or TV show by hearing it with your device’s microphone, in the case of music it will allow you to share clips of the track directly to Facebook. The songs will show up on your profile as a 30 second clip from either Rdio, Spotify or Deezer and if you don’t have an account with one of those audio services or if you don’t have a preference, Facebook will select one for you at random. Meanwhile, the information that you can share about TV shows even comes down to series episodes and titles meaning that you can better avoid spoilers by directly telling your Facebook friends which episode you’re watching.
An obvious concern about the app’s listening feature is what it will or won’t share. Thankfully, the feature is ‘opt-in’ meaning that you don’t have to switch it on if you don’t want to, thus avoiding some unfortunate mishaps when your friends realise that you like listening to Nickelback/Justin Bieber mashups. It’s unclear of the exact date when the update will be rolled out, but Facebook say that the update to the app will be available in the next few weeks so we’ll keep you posted once we know more.
Source: Facebook
Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories, Facebook’s Nearby Friends Service Is Now Available on Android and iOS,
Red may be an attention-grabbing color, but too much of it can trigger anxiety. You might soon see a lot less of the hue on Facebook. The company is testing the ability to turn off the crimson in-app notification dots that seem to pop up every time y...
Facebook is once again changing up the News Feed. The company announced Thursday two ranking updates to the algorithm that drives the News Feed. One is meant to prioritize a user's closest friends, and another the links they'll find most relevant. Ch...
Out of all the announcements Facebook made at its F8 2019 developers conference, one of the most important was the redesign of its core smartphone app. The new application, which has been updated with what Facebook is calling the "FB5" version, is no...
